Arthur Miller: The demonising of my father

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Rebecca Miller talks about her father's death, the attacks over his alleged neglect of her Down's syndrome brother, and her husband Daniel Day-Lewis

Rebecca Miller’s first novel, The Private Lives of Pippa Lee, recipient of that lucrative accolade, a Richard & Judy Summer Read sticker, is a woman’s book. When, last week, Miller did a Q&A at the Royal Festival Hall, there were only five men in the room and one of them was the bearded Canadian waffler interviewing her and the other was me, prepping to do something similar the next day. It was clear that everyone else, the women in the audience, were in love with her heroine. Pippa Lee is the much younger wife of an octogenarian Manhattan publisher. Having